On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 21:46 -0500, Jake McHenry wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 01:43 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Logwatch used to be sent to me on my Fedora system, > >> but now it seems to go to root. > >> I changed the line in /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch to > >> $Config{'mailto'} = "tim"; > >> but this didn't seem to have any effect. > >> > >> Has anyone else met this problem? > > ---- > > rather than that approach, it seems much more logical to > > edit /etc/aliases to direct mail for user 'root: tim' (and if you are > > using postfix, run the command 'postaliases' or if you are using > > sendmail, run the command 'newaliases') > > > and what if he only wants logwatch, not the rest of roots mail? ---- then this wouldn't have been a very good suggestion Craig